for boys who were further behind in school. The results also show that households that randomly received a productive …

to education, basic health information, and SRH services, contributing to a lack of awareness and knowledge about SRH and … traditional and harmful gender stereotypes. The objectives of the study were to understand the impact that structural and proximal …

Maldives, a middle income country, is on track to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while gender …

poverty and education. Nepal has achieved MDG 5 but only one in three births is attended by skilled medical personnel …

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) is one of five areas of focus of the World Bank's Reproductive Health … World Health Assembly, representatives agreed that early marriage is a violation of the rights of children and adolescents … decision-making power (World Bank, 2014). Adolescent marriage is also much more likely to affect females than males: in the …

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) is one of five areas of focus of the World Bank's Reproductive Health …, sexual activity is lowest among never-married adolescent women with no education (15 percent and 7 percent, respectively). …

) returns to education, which measures the extent to which the gender gap is driven by differences by gender in returns to …This paper relies on a simple framework to understand the gender wage gap in Macedonia, and simulates how the gender … wage gap into three factors: (i) a wage level factor, which measures the extent to which the gender gap is driven by …

were no education facilities and too few female school graduates who could be trained in the provinces. Given the dire …, its maternal mortality ratio was the second highest in the world, reflecting a lack of access and utilization of … situation, the shortage of midwives had to be remedied urgently. The community Midwifery Education (CME) Program was created. …